voters felt. the voters felt their country was slipping away. the democrats, have a choice. you could say you're racist, nazi, fascist, you're twibell or you could say why is it an auto worker in detroit is voting republican five all the stuff thrown at him? also the element is what we saw under urn joe biden is if you came to the southern boarder and spoke the magic words, you could go to any city of your choosing and all of a sudden that worker in detroit is going why am i paying all these taxes -- 1 >> we're leaving this to take you leave to mount vernon where president trump is speaking at a dinner. >> ♪ stand up next to you and

defend her still today because there ain't no doubt i love this land god bless the u.s.a. ♪♪ president trump: i love that song. i love ben too or you wouldn't be here. i had a thing, as i said, ben is being honored and i just got back from europe, as you know and had a great time but i've been doing this for four nights in a row and they do it very well as you probably noticed. it's great. [applause] but i never thought -- ben was expecting a call that i wouldn't be coming tonight but i never even thought of that. but i did try and get out of the tuxedo, i will say that because i'm getting ready and just about set to go and say they say, sir,

you know, it's black tie tonight. i said you have to be kidding. i said you know ben would mind if i showed up in other than black tie? they said he'd be fine with it, sir. i said no, he's a man that i respect too much to do that so i put the damn tuxedo on and here we are. [applause] very special. so i'm thrilled to be here with so many friends and distinguished guests to support the phenomenal organization, the american corner storen institute dedicated to life, liberty, community and faith and that's ben and candy, frankly. incredible family. i especially want to thank the extraordinary patriot american cornerstone founder dr. ben carson. we know him as ben but he's doctor. he's a great doctor, one of the best. [applause] and especially i'd like to thank

candy. i've known candy for a long time and she's the rock behind that man. she's the rock. wherever you are, candy -- these lights are brutal but that's ok. i know you're out there, candy, and we love you and -- [applause] there you are. thank you. they're rough lights tonight, candy. they wanted to do a little torture on trump. let's put those lights right in his eyes but i also want to wish ben a very happy birthday. i won't ask how many years because we don't like talking about that and personally congratulate the recipients of this year ears a.c.i. founders award to susie wiles. soucy? where is soucy? there you are. not on is suzy the first female white house chief of state. that's really surprising.

i thought there'd be like a few. munch. but in history she's the first. she's also the best. i will tell you that she's the best. she breaks problems go away. now, when i say that, i'll knock on wood. she makes problems go away. you know, she's the most powerful woman anywhere in the world they say. i read that today. anywhere in the world. one phone call and countries could disappear but she's not that type of a person but she is. i believe she is the most powerful woman in the world. that's pretty good, right? we're also delighted to be joined by secretary of energy chris wright and there's nobody better than chris. chris? thank you, chris. he's great. what a combination those two are. i'll tell you, between chris and doug, what a combination. secretary of housing and urban development scott turner. thank you, scott. thank you. by the way, strong

recommendation of ben. he said ben did such a great job with that. i would have given it to ben but ben said i've had it, i want other things to do and he's gone on to some very important things but he said the best guy is scott turner and i said that's ok with me, right, scott? and he's been fantastic. a friend of mine for a long time. ambassador to nato, matt whittaker. they have to stop buying oil from russia, matt. will you talk to them, please? the europeans are buying oil from russia. it's not supposed to happen, right? won't let it happen much longer but that's not good. c.m.s. administrator dr. mehmet oz. oz, where's oz? how are we doing on favored nations, oz? next week, ok.

we're going to be reducing drug prices down to a level that -- not by 20%, 30%. probably like 1000%. we're paying sometimes 10 times more than other nations and we're not doing it anymore. it's been going on for a long time. a deal with drug companies and trying to take advantage of the united states. you're going to see a big cut, which is going to be great for every aspect. medicare, medicaid. social security, everything. we're going to be literally be cutting prices by 500%, 600%. drugs that sell for $8 many london are selling for $130. think of it. $1,300 for, i call it the fat killer. i don't know if it works or not but it didn't work for a friend of might have been who called me. he's seriously obese. highly neurotic but a brilliant

businessman. he calls me up. he used to call me donnie. donnie -- now he calls me president so he has come a long way but he was in a hotel in london and he sent down for -- i guess it's okempic, which we call the fat drug and he lives in new york in a beautiful apartment. extremely crude individual. he doesn't mind me telling that because i won't say his name. we know a lot of people like that, right? fat, neurotic, all the ingredients you need for success. he said, president, this is crazy. doesn't affect him or anything. in new york i paid $1300 for this thing and here i paid $88.

i said what is it? you lose weight. i said it didn't work on you. but what are you talking about? he said it's $88 in london, it's $1300 in new york and while that money doesn't bother that guy at all, he's got a lot of money but the don september bothers him. he's like what the hell is going on? dr. oz is on it and he's a tough, smart guy and the deal is on because the drug companies, for 0 years, this has been going on for many years, decades and basically the united states has been paying for the cost of drugs of other nations and it's not going on any longer. i called the drug companies. i called one of the best. i won't say his name. he's a high-quality year. makes about $40 middle school million a year, all cash. they've been selling this crap for 40 years. who will hell can sell that?

oh, we've been doing it for research and development and all this. why aren't other countries pi paying for that? in the end i said we're not doing it anymore. we want favored nations. i want same price as other nations pay, which ask far lower than us and i told him the story of my heavy friend because it was so poignant the way this guy -- as a good businessman he really hit me with it and i knew it but they have such incredible lies, that's why they're so highly paid. they're able to get away with it. he said sir, you're right. we had a detective for 30 minutes and i was killing him. he couldn't respond it to. why are we paying 10 times more than another country? right next door we have a country. people go there every month or two to go buy drugs. rich people because it's so

ridiculous. i said they're successful and they get paid all that money because anybody that can sell this is damn good. they're amazing executives. actually. and after half an hour he held up his hands and said, sir, i can't do this anymore. i can't sell this anybody. we have to do something about it. it's very unfair to the united states. isn't that great? took him a long time. took him about 25 years and we're not going to do that anymore and if the nations give us a hard time we're going to trip them for the difference because, you know, the nations got very -- all over the world. it's the world. talking about the entire world so what's going to happen, oz is, they're going to go up a little bit because the world is bigger than us. little bit, like a lot but it's the world and it's us so they're going to go up a little bit and we're going to come down a lot and it's going to equalize and

be a beautiful thing to watch. called favored nations and we're going to be paying the price that the lowest nation is paying. we're going to be getting drugs that would cost $80 some place else and we're paying 10 times that amount. we have one pill where it's $8 prosecute for the pill and we're paying $79 for the same pill and that's not even worst example. dr. oz is in charge of it. i put him in charge because he's a wonderful guy and great businessman. he went to school, a great place. i like it too. but i don't know, are we coming after them too? i suspected so. i wonder how much harvard is going to end up paying? going to be a lot. columbia agreed to $200 million. others -- went to a great

school, where i went and this is going to be earth shattering. this is not like we're reducing -- it's so important, it's so big, it's going to be incredible for every one of our different programs. especially medicaid, medicare, social security -- everything. but if you look at it, i've been looking at this for years and at the end of my first term i was so proud, i was so foolish and proud because i was the first president in 32 areas who actually brought drug prices down. so i brought them down for the year. so the first time this has happened in i think was 33 -- a long time. so after a 12-minute month period they went down and i was so proud of myself i called a news conference. said ladies and gentlemen, i want to let you know that this is the first time this has

happened in the history of our country, for 32 years, i guess but maybe longer than that. proud to announce that drug prices for the years have gone down. and people stood up -- couldn't care less. they didn't get much of a charge out of it but a couple of people went like this. because i announced the amount. it was 1/4 of 1%. i was so proud but now i'm going to bring them down 1300%. think of this. 1000%, 200%. whatever, different. and i'm really proud of that. but at the same time i thought it was wonderful. it was just a tiny little cut but it was something at the time after getting to know the system, the system is quite a system and it's run by very brilliant people on the other side and we're not going to let that happen anymore.

we're not going to be the hospital for the rest of the world. we're going to help our country first and help other countries and a lot of places. we have a lot of money coming in because of tariffs. if it wasn't for tariffs we'd have a big problem but fortunately we've been able to stop the world from taking advantage of us through their use of tariffs, right? sort of interesting but also fiers f.d.a commissioner, he's going to be working with oz on this. marty makary is fantastic. thank you. he's done great. amazing and they're really working on it with bobby. bobby is so no controversial. i wish we could get somebody who's a little bit more exciting in there but they're doing something and frankly -- that's a big found. i think we have a bigger announcement coming i hope on monday, marty.

it's enough, we have to make the announcement, it's so big. we can't let people keep doing this. the i don't want to wait any longer. if it's wrong -- it's not going to be wrong but if it is wrong, it's fine that we have to do it because we're going to have an announcement on autism on monday -- got to be monday. i don't want to do it tuesday, wednesday, thursday, and i think it's going to be a very important announcement. i think it's going to be one of the most important things that we will do because what's happen with autism -- did you know if you go back 15 years, maybe a little bit longer, one in 10,000 children had autism. bobby told me -- it's hard to believe that this is correct. that as of recently, it was one in 10 boys. is that pretty correct, marty and oz? one? 10. one in 12. think of it.

one in 10,000. before that, it was one in 20,000 but it was one in 10,000 let's say 16, 17 years ago and now it's one in 12 boys and girls are slightly higher, not much but they're slightly higher. it's so horrible. it's so horrible shoo i think we have the answer. and i think it's going to be very strongly given and we're going to do it on monday. i'd like to do it tomorrow but tomorrow we're honoring a great man, however. charlie kirk, we're honoring somebody that's been with us right from the beginning. right from the beginning he's been with us. [applause] we had an army and he was so -- he loved what we were doing so much. he was such a great guy. he'd say president, could you come tomorrow and make a speech? i said tomorrow? ics, charlie, i'm president.

i mean, you got to give me a little notice. he said well, would it be possible? they'd love to see you. usually i'd try to do it. he was unbelievable. he had an army of young people. they loved him so much. they're devastated right now. everybody is devastated so we're going tomorrow. we're going to be flying in. going to say some words but there are no words to describe happened. it should never have happened to him. he was a good person. nobody deserved that but he really didn't. i also want to thank representatives beth van dine and rich mccormick very much and virginia attorney general jason mahers. thank you very much, jason. thank you. good job. talking about other law enforcement people in virginia.

you know that, right? i had one that was endorsed so strongly by two democrat senators that i said i don't want that person. you know, when you get too strong annunen dorsement from the democrats and not very strong from the presentation you say there's nothing i don't like about it. does that make sense to anybody? who knows but we have to follow our instincts, right? and a very good friend of mine, bob, who is just a great -- he's a popular guy. i heard backstage -- and bob is going to be getting a big awards from me very soon. i'm really looking forward to that. going to announce it in the next week or so but it's very important. right in the middle of the heat when we were going. play wanted to impeach trump trump, which they did twice, failed both types. they wanted to do everything and this guy was hispanic, to put it

nicely, he was hispanic. and he didn't karlyn bowman. he was with me all the way, weren't you? all the way, bob. you never wavered. neither did bin and neither did a lot of people in this room. they were throwing these radical left charges at me. these lunatics. and bob's sales tripled because everybody started buying goya. even now i had goya last night in the refrigerator. i buy it, can you believe it? because it reminds me of you. he was a brave guy but i'm going to be announcing an award next week that's in honor of your courage, pure and simple because you showed great courage. we did so well with the

hispanics. there's never been anything like it. on the republican side there's never been anything even close. we won miami and so many places. the entire borderline of texas. we won every county on the border. they said you won every one. that's the first time that's happened since reconstruction. i said devine reconstruction. are you talking about the civil war? he said yes. so it was the civil war, first time. but it was because of bob and people like bob and we love you bob, and ump great and thank you very much. and ben loves you too. so we're going to have a big award for you but as you know, we're here this evening at george washington's beautiful mount vernon as i've just lind from the mag anyone united kingdom with king charles and camila and the whole group.

what a group. they're great people and they really laid it out. don't forget, they're really honoring the country. there's never been anything -- and they did it for me a number of years ago. that's the first time they did it twice for a president. that's because it wasn't consecutive. we actually know it was consecutive, if we want to be accurate about it. we want to be accurate. well, i'll be called a three-termer. the only problem is i want to be three terms you but i don't want the results of the second term. i don't want anything to do with people pouring into our country totally unchecked but getting them out. we have no choice as a country. but a lot has changed since the days of president washington and king george iii but i think that the father of our country would be very pleased and proud to see american strong and respected

again. we're very respected again and i saw that because, you know, i would say the united kingdom -- there's nobody that can do the pomp and ceremony like them, don't we agree? although tonight is a very nice evening. it's a niece tent. it's a nice tent. i like that building that's 1400 years old sightly better. did you see that, the table? it was like 100 yards. the length of a football field in a ballroom that was like this. they opened the doors,ics i've never seen anything like this but this is a close second. i didn't see any poles holding the ceiling up. no, this is beautiful. beautiful because of the people. and we had, by the way, everybody was there. every big business leader. that was really a -- that was an amazing event but it was respect for the country. the biggest event they've ever

done of its kind. there's every been anything even close. thank you, i like that guy. i don't know who the hell he is. i know he's an old man. who is that? stand up? look at this guy. i don't know who the hell he is. i like him. thank you. i like that voice. thank you very much. but there could be no more appropriate place because of the american cornerstone independents constitute exists to promoat the fundamental principles of the american founding. those are the ideals and movements that our administration are defend each and every day and now our country is thriving like never before. you know what the king of called rain said -- saudi arabia said

to me, sir, a year ago you were a dead country. and now we've got the hottest country anywhere in the world. under all four years of biden, only $1 trillion of new investment came into the united states. four years, $1 trillion. it's a little less than that. under eight months of trump we've already secured commitments of $17 trillion coming into the country. [applause] and if you take the good years that we've had, it's just a small fraction. think of it, it's going to be more than $17 trillion for the year and this is essentially we're talking about up until that point, eight minutes. 17 trillion. there's never been any country that's done anything like that. largely because of two things, november 5, the presidential election but of equal and maybe greater importance, i guess the

ultimate is if i didn't win, you wouldn't be doing this but the tariffs are bringing money in at levels we've never seen before. because of tariffs and trade we've been able to stop seven different wars. think of it. because i said well, you're not going to trade with us anymore. the stock market has just set another record. i think it's 48 times during this short period of time. we've reached new highs and mortgage rates despite a totally incompetent fed chairman. jerome "too late" powell. he's an incompetent guy. but he low everyday the other day. too late. but mortgage rates still have hit a three-year lee despite a fed that should have been much lower than he is.

but morn rates, think off it. the stock market just hit on friday the highest it's ever within. we're getting close to 5350,000 -- look at all you happy people. i would not want to be inthe room -- first of all, the room probably would not be here. i would probably not be here. ben would not be here. we would all be sitting home commiserating. friday, we hit the highest stock price we ever had on all three indexes. the americans are spending the least amount of their disposable income on gasoline since -- it is about 20 years. we have the number down, i think we will be breaking two dollars a gallon for gasoline. previous administrations/a number of new oil and gas leases by 90%. the administration, biden, the

auto pen -- when in doubt, give it to the guy operating -- the guy who operated the auto pen was president of the united states. he said he only spoke to biden twice, that was only about how's the weather? so therefore it is illegal because you are not allowed to do that. you should not use an auto pen. when i signed something about somebody a general or a secretary or something, other than oz, who doesn't care so much about formality. it is nice to actually have a signature other than an auto pen. i think the only one he signed was hunter's pardon. it was actually signed by him. you know how you can tell? it was like chicken scratch. my father -- you want a real signature. this was like chicken scratch. the auto pen looked much better. but you don't do that. you know you have an obligation. they put these big, beautiful, often times magnificent pieces

of very expensive paper. very -- particularly expensive paper. beautiful paper. and you sign it. nobody wants to see -- i can tell an auto pen immediately. usually there are two little pinholes. from pulling the paper. when you see the pinholes, you know -- it is not too original. unless someone is using two pens to pull it across. but the auto pen is a fraud. they had people like lisa monaco, like wiseman who wasn't in the administration but pulling her shots. andrew wiseman. bad people. these are bad people. they had bad people running our country. that is why they allowed these people to pour into our country unchecked and unvented. they knew it wasn't good. but for some reason the democrats hate our country. i think -- what we have to do is we have to win the midterms. i don't know why, but when you are president rarely do you --

we are having one of the greatest presidencies ever. we had a great four years. this is going to blow everything away. some say it is the most successful presidency so far ever in the history of our country. that should mean we win the midterms. but they've had other successful presidents. and they lose the midterms. it is a very small percentage that win. something psychological going on there, maybe. we don't want to see things destroyed. what we have done is sewing. we have to win the midterms. we should win them. somehow, they have talked to psychiatrists, why is it that almost automatically whoever is president loses the midterm? it should be the opposite. if we have a successful administration, and i really believe, look what we will be announcing medically in the next couple of days.

you will see what will happen on monday. between that and favored nations and the other things we have done, we should blow everybody away. i think we will. all we can do is have a real big success. then you have to get everyone out and vote. thank you to jim, he has been a great gentleman. great senator. beautiful wife. thank you for being here. the trump administration is a different policy on energy. you have been hearing it because i made a lot of speeches. i did not take any days off. when i was 120 days, i did not take any vacations, i did not take any days off. i went 120 days, speeches and rallies. and all you heard was drill, baby, drill. and we did. now we are double just about

anybody else. we are really bringing it down. that will automatically stop the war with russia and ukraine. you get the prices down more, that will stop it. i'm very disappointed in president putin. they are killing 5000 people a week. anywhere from 5000 to 7000 people a week are dying for no reason whatsoever. we've removed an estimated 100,000 unnecessary bureaucrats from the federal government. we are cutting historic numbers of job killing regulations. two months ago, i signed the largest working-class tax cut in american history into law. it includes no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on social security. that is big stuff. we have to explain the big beautiful bill. i call it the great big beautiful bill. it is unbelievable for middle-class, low income, it is unbelievable for everybody. it is really unbelievable for producing jobs. on the world stage, we are once

again putting america first. that is what we do, we help others, but we have to put america first. exactly as george washington would have wanted. he would have voted for us. we have a man who rated me the number three president of all time. he said only superseded by george washington and abraham lincoln. and the host of the show said are you in trouble, trump is going to be so angry at you when he hears he's number three. but we will take that. i don't know how many have done that. they actually said george washington, abraham lincoln, donald j. trump. i said i like that guy very much -- on the world stage, we are once again doing things that we are just respected at a level we have never been respected before. we are forging peace agreements and stopping wars. we stopped wars between india and pakistan, thailand and

cambodia. thailand was -- they were going at it hot and heavy. and these were wars that were not stoppable. armenia and azerbaijan, going on for years. they came to my office, two great guys. one was their 22 years, one was there seven. through the entire term of their office, all they did was kill people on the other side. it is pretty wide. one over here, one over there. and slowly over the course of about an hour, they came close. at the end of an era we were hugging each other and holding hands. it was amazing. we settled the war. cambodia and armenia. it was just starting and it was a bad one. let's see -- cambodia, armenia,

we have kosovo, serbia, israel, iran, egypt, ethiopia. they built a little dam in ethiopia that is the largest dam in a world. it affects water going to the nile. would you say that is a problem? that is a big problem. all of these things we have done, think of india and pakistan. i stopped that with trade. they want to trade. i have great respect for both leaders. when you take a look at all of these wars we have stopped and they said so think, india and pakistan, thailand, cambodia, armenia, azerbaijan, kosovo and serbia, israel and iran. egypt and ethiopia. rwanda. and the congo. we stopped all of them. 60% of them were stopped because of trade. like with india, we said we are

not going to do any trade. and they have nuclear weapons. then i was told if you can stop russia and ukraine, you should get the nobel prize. what about the seven others -- i should get a nobel prize for each 1 -- they said if you stop, if you stop russia and ukraine, sir, you should be able to get the nobel peace -- i said i stopped seven wars, that is one war, and that is a big one. actually that was the one i thought would be easiest because i have a good relationship with president putin. disappointed in him, but i do. i thought that would be the easiest. but we will get it done one way or the other. i also obliterated iran's nuclear host by totally annihilating their enriched uranium. and i will tell you what, those planes, those beautiful b2

bombers, we just ordered 20 more of them. just give me the same one. the job those pilots did, they flew for 47 hours back and forth. we had 52 tankers, big tankers. how would you like to be flying a tanker knowing if you get hit by a little bullet, that is not good things that happen. those people are brave. when i met the tanker guys, i had them to the office, a lot of the pilots and mechanics -- i said i want to mechanics. i said to the tanker guys how do you like flying around with hundreds of thousands of gasoline in that big thing? they are brave people. there is no stopping, about 17 hours one way, and then they hit at the dark of night with no moon. and every single one of those bombs hit its targets. it was absolutely amazing. they were the heroes. and when the pilots went in,

they came to the office and i met them and they were great looking guys. they were like tom cruise. they are all great looking guys. i would have said tom cruise. he called me about something, he was such a nice guy, i'm just saying he is a hell of a looking guy. they said sir, for 22 years we practiced this mission. us and our predecessors. we practice it three to four times every single year and you are the only president that had the courage to let us go and do our thing. it is very interesting. we stopped the flood of illegal aliens and for four months in a row, the numbers of illegals admitted into the united states is zero. even i find that hard to believe, it is made up by a very liberal think tank. it is just about zero.

if you look back a year and two years, it was millions of people coming across our border from mental institutions, from prisons, drug dealers, gangs. they came from all over. we designated ms 13 and the mexican drug cartels as far terrorist organizations which nobody else did. and as you probably noticed, we are hitting them very hard. we are blowing the venezuelan narco terrorists out of the water. anytime you see a boat, thousands of people die from the cargo. thousands died. and the radical left said this is not nice. thousands of people are dying because of those boatloads of drugs, fentanyl and other drugs. we are restoring law and order to our cities and towns, including our nation's capital, washington, d.c., where you can now go out to have dinner. here we are.

i rode, i was at a deal in the car. and i said -- there was no trash, we had no tent cities. it was clean. it was going to look even better in six months to a year. we are going to get rid of the little potholes. it looked beautiful. it was so different. nice weather, the grass -- some i'm not going to have to change. the grass looked good. we actually had soldiers. we saw them. they were picking up trash. the national guard, these great military people, the job they did has been unbelievable.

and these are tough, tougher than men playing in women's sports and transgender for everybody. transgender for everybody. let the men playing in women's sports is tough. the open borders is tough. but the best argument is crime. this is what i like running. what i love crime -- we don't like crime and the democrats obviously love it. they like crime, we don't. that is all you have to say. i don't think it is possible to lose an election. they said today, they better be careful, this is a trump trap. it is an 80-20 issue. no, it is a 99-1 issue. and we don't know the one person. we cannot find that one person. he's working for chris and the oil wells. what we have done in washington,

we took it over -- i don't want to insult anybody, but it was horrible. one of the worst. and within 12 days, it was a safe city. and within 22 days, it was really safe. a couple of days later, i went to walk down the middle of the street and i had no fear. we took 1600 criminals, hardened criminals. people, i think they were born to be criminals. these were seriously bad people. we got them out of here, brought them to different countries, got them out. they can't come back. we are never letting them come back. we are restoring law and order. now we are going to memphis, tennessee. are you happy about that -- how about the liberals? they call themselves progressives. progressive is such a beautiful word. now they say are your progressive -- they are actually regressive.

how about the liberals when they are going we don't want to have military people -- if you have your choice of not having military people but being shot, drugged out, beat to hell, and raped as a woman, would you rather have a couple of soldiers around so this doesn't happen -- i think so. and these soldiers are not necessarily politically correct, they are very strong people, very strong soldiers. i think that is ok to say. we have a very different country than we had two years ago. we have a country that wants to see results, a country that is now based on merit thanks to the supreme court. a country based on merit. and our country was built on merit. it was not built on woke nonsense. and we now have soldiers that are soldiers and people that everything is based on merit. including getting into a college. if you have good marks you get in, if you don't, you don't get in.